2008-09-11

Large Hadron Colider (LHC) begins

At 10h28 this morning, scientists at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, activated the first beam around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator: the Large Hadron Colider (LHC).

2007-04-30

Gun Control and Virginia Tech Massacre Debate

Everyone was shocked on 2007 April 16th for the Virginia Tech massacre.That revamped the discussion in the US about the gun rights.

From Wikipedia:

Proponents of gun rights and the Second Amendment argued that Virginia Tech's gun-free "safe zone" policy ensured that none of the students or faculty would be armed, guaranteeing that no one could stop Cho's rampage.

Eh? Do you want a campus to become a battle field?

Highest respect for everyone's opinion - not now.If you think better everyone has a gun, you are just plain stupid.

2005-11-20

Deep structure and surface structure (Chomsky)

1From Wikipedia.

Noam Chomsky, emeritus professor of linguistics at the M.I.T., developed the idea that each sentence in a language has two levels of representation - a deep structure and a surface structure. The deep structure was (more-or-less) a direct representation of the basic semantic relations underlying a sentence, and was mapped onto the surface structure (which followed the phonological form of the sentence very closely) via transformations.

Chomsky believed that there would be considerable similarities between the Deep Structures of different languages, and that these structures would reveal properties, common to all languages, which were concealed by their Surface Structures.